So much for a slew of winter updates...
Not much really happened this winter to the car that I thought was tremendously noteworthy. It got parked outside of where I store it through and into December, which at that point I really didn't have any pressing desire to address some of the things on...
If you're mechanically and electrically inclined you can probably get KL parts for similar enough prices to the FS engine. But the shortlist for the KL swap would put the swap at a higher cost than just swapping in another FS if you can get your hands on one.
I've dropped the price on this to $4700. I'll be purchasing a new battery for this in the spring, as the old one was kaput. It's been parked throughout the winter, likely wondering why I've left it alone.
I know I know. I'm not going to say I won't be sad to see it go. In a way it'll be strange being "out of the Mazda game" so to speak, but it's something that will allow me to explore other cars and that I think, is a sort of natural progression of things.
https://youtu.be/OlmNzyYM_UQ
Stellar news - the car survived its first HPDE.
Below is a modified post I'd made on a Contour FB page:
The Falken RT660s were, admittedly, a bit more aggressive than what others were on in my run group, but I felt the car was super planted all throughout. I know...